Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1911 — GOSSIP OF SPORTDOM [ARTICLE]

GOSSIP OF SPORTDOM

They sell the Boston National league team almost every afternoon, now In Beantown. That annual row of the Ice skaters gives promise of coming along on scheduled time. McFarland Insists that he is a lightweight still, but he doesn’t care to work at it Just yet. Frank Gotch may have retired for keeps, but there are a lot of wrestling fans from Missouri who will have to be shown.

Now it is reported that Manager McGraw of the New York Giants visited Chicago recently to swap Murphy out of Johnny Kling. Eastern collegiate basket ball officials want to let the referee decide whether holding and blocking shall constitute a personal foul. If Tulane university professors want to be popular they should know by this time how “incontrovertlbly and unanimously” students regard football. Every year they come across with a lot of changes to increase the batting. The latest is make it impossible for a manager to use more than two pitchers in a game.

Cleveland baseball fans see a pennant in sight for the Naps next year, according to reports from that city. Jackson and Lajole In the outfield are expected to bring it that way. President Murphy of the Cubs is against any change in our baseball code. Why shouldn’t he be? The Cubs could not hope to be more successful under a new set of rules.

The principal ambition of. the heavyweight fighters seems to be not to battle themselves, but to dig up a “white man's hope” who can fight, or at least make a noise like a champion. Gotch when champion never refused to meet any wrestler In the world who had the semblance of a. right to challenge him and be never bet on himself. Aspiring wrestlers, please copy.